It might not officially be spring just yet, but flowers and sprouts are appearing all around BBG! Read Spring Awakens
Plants & Gardens Blog
Into the Garden
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Spring Awakens
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The BBG Orchid Collection
The BBG has long been known for its diverse and numerous orchid collection. With over 6,000 plants and growing, visitors can often see a wide variety of blooming flowers even at the height of winter. Read The BBG Orchid Collection
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Who Needs Fruit?—Kaffre Lime
Thankfully there exists for lovers of indoor gardening and ethnic cooking a citrus whose foliage—and not the fruit—is the prime objective: the kaffre lime, Citrus hystrix. Read Who Needs Fruit?—Kaffre Lime
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A New Tree Bed Garden
Tree beds offer great opportunities for city dwellers to exercise their green thumbs. As long as gardeners remember that the tree's health always comes first, they can choose from a large palette of annuals, perennials, and bulbs to beautify tree beds. Read A New Tree Bed Garden
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Kale: Delicious, Nutritious, and Easy to Grow
Kale is a healthy and delicious cool-season vegetable that produces well into fall. A diverse array beautiful and edible cultivars are available. Read Kale: Delicious, Nutritious, and Easy to Grow
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Give Bees a Chance—The Mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder
In the United States, managed honey bees pollinate more than 100 commercial crops, including cherries, blueberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, coffee, and almonds. And these bees are dying. Read Give Bees a Chance—The Mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder
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Go Native
In all the busyness of installing “green” systems in your garden—drip irrigation, compost bins, solar panels, gray-water recycling—it can be easy to overlook one of the most important environmental decisions you make as a gardener: what you plant. Read Go Native
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A Blended Garden
A blended garden is one that weaves edible and ornamental plants in the same garden bed or container. There isn’t a strict line as to where the flower garden stops and the vegetable garden starts. Read A Blended Garden
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Garden Photography—Taking Great Plant Photos
Whether you shoot for publication or your own pleasure, for a botanical record or fine art prints, have fun and enjoy the act of capturing the vitality and beauty of the natural world. Read Garden Photography—Taking Great Plant Photos
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Cherry Blossom Time-lapse (Video)
From April 18 to April 26, 2008, over 3,000 digital photos were taken, one every three minutes, of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's famed Cherry Walk. Read Cherry Blossom Time-lapse (Video)